Artist attitude - pet peeves?

IdiotWithPencil 2017-10-18 11:49:54 UTC #43

"SJW.exe has stopped working, check your privilege and conform to my world view "

Louistrations 2017-10-18 12:34:00 UTC #44

Young artists that are incredibly skilled and could easily take the world by storm, but instead spend most of their time playing videogames. There's so many! XD

Louistrations 2017-10-18 12:34:46 UTC #45

Wow, I sound old...

joe_galindez 2017-10-18 12:56:00 UTC #46

Don't worry about it, grampa.

Testaccount 2017-10-18 14:02:50 UTC #47

For me, it's creators that get popular and then get so full of themselves. Basically, they think they're the best thing around and start shunning others less popular than them.

That annoys me the most. I've seen some writers blow up in popularity and then drop all their "friends" with less reads.

I've also seen writers form cliques stating they are the best group of writers in that fandom or genre. I've seen it happen on two websites now. I hope the same thing doesn't happen on Tapas.

soju 2017-10-18 15:11:32 UTC #48

what about young beginner artists who, instead of working on their skills, present themself online as professionals, giving false advise, trolling experienced artists.... -was already annoying on conceptart.org 15 years ago...
-now i sound old.... (and i am...)

KoreanTacos 2017-10-18 15:43:36 UTC #49

Hey! I know a thing or two about shit! It's disgusting and personally I wouldn't want to be friends with it. Always cramps my style.

Louhi 2017-10-18 16:04:16 UTC #50

I once drew a sketch of a black person and got called racist for drawing "stereotypical black features". Next time I drew a black girl with more "european" features and got also called racist for "white washing" black facial features. I never took to myself but it was hilarious that no matter how you draw a black person you're always a racists. There's never pleasing sjw's so it's better to not even try.

Rhombik 2017-10-18 17:55:38 UTC #51

People who announce everything little thing they do.

Otherwise, not much bugs me.

IdiotWithPencil 2017-10-18 19:17:16 UTC #52

respond saying "you're right, thanks for the input :D" it usually short circuits their mental faculties , then just ignore them and keep being awesome =P

Aspie_Gamer 2017-10-21 17:42:02 UTC #53

Hahahaha....I'm currently re-reading the manga about making manga called Bakuman and I'm reminded of what Eiji says when he wins the Tezuka award. "All that hard work while everyone else was playing video games really paid off!" And the funny thing is, he's being sincere when he says that given that its shown a few chapters later that he grew up poor living in the boonies his whole life with manga being his only entertainment.

Luminosophy 2017-10-21 18:31:20 UTC #54

I never got this because I was on tumblr for quite a while and I'd see friends getting flack for their black characters left and right, but mine never got any despite being followed by some very avid and opinionated/ obvious sjws. I mean I go to their feed and they're just attacking everyone for the slightest perceived injustice. Not saying it didn't happen but I was just bewildered that I had some sort of immunity to it.

Although there was one thing that was dumb. Someone took a character illustration of mine from Deviantart and posted it to their blog and tagged her as "African American". No where in my description did I ever state that the character was "African American". I'm Australian, none of my characters are Americans of any kind. They just assumed it because she had dark skin. When I asked them to take the tag off they pretended like they couldn't find the link, the link to the image on their blog that I provided in my ask.

SpavVy 2017-10-22 04:58:39 UTC #55

Oooh, those are just the best! It's funny when people online just assume these things because they have no idea who is on the other side of the computer screen

TheThoughtfulBoxful 2017-10-25 15:19:41 UTC #56

Creators who are always looking for more.

"Ugh, I've been posting my comic for 3 weeks and I only have 2.5k SUBSCRIBERS."

I'm sorry, but... WHAT ARE YOU COMPLAINING ABOUT??

joe_galindez 2017-10-25 17:38:54 UTC #57

"I don't get out of bed for less than 5,000 subscribers."

dawgofdawgness 2017-10-25 23:05:05 UTC #58

True, but having 2.5k subs to someone with the goal of 10k is the same thing as having 14 subs with the goal of 100.
Wait, that made no sense sorry, it sounded better in my head

TheThoughtfulBoxful 2017-10-26 15:32:51 UTC #59

I see what you were trying to say

It's okay to have goals, of course! But it's all about your attitude.

Pandastrophic 2017-10-26 18:36:10 UTC #60

I think a lot of creators (at least the popular creators I've seen) who complain about that mean it more in terms of reader engagement rather than just the sub count. Like they'd have a high sub count but lower than normal likes/comment/views, which is a valid issue to complain about.

joe_galindez 2017-10-26 19:09:36 UTC #61

So many lurkers . . .

catluckey 2017-10-28 07:13:42 UTC #62

I have to jump in. I was literally pained by this one creator who told me my characters/art was stiff needed improvement.

At first I accepted because my early drawings I felt were stiff. But I had updated some pages and panels I had posted & wondered if they saw that too.

It was responded with..."they are stiff from the first panel to the last. I needed more expressiveness, learn perspective. That my pages were static not dynamic."

I'm sharing this because it hurt and still does. Yeah, I'm aiming to do better. Learning over and over again. Maybe I don't catch on that fast. With no excuse, I've only come to know manga/anime for the last 5 years. I'm in my Golden years too, trying to teach this old "lady" new tricks. In my youth, I only knew comics like Casper, Archie, Dennis the Menace, Marvel & DC comics. I'm talkin' old days! Walt Disney studios was the animation to gawk at...for me, it's become Bones, and other anime/manga media.

Okay, I went back to check out their art...and come to know, they were unique, but I couldn't see why they'd target me? I mean, they seemed normal.

I don't want to "down" anybody. But it was one of the worst experiences. And I try not to criticize. Only if someone asks. If I do it, I sandwich it with something positive and the beginning and end. In the middle will be tutorial types of helps. That's as far as I go.

I hope I didn't harm the creator, but they just tore me up! Sorry for ranting. If need be, I can always delete this.